Hello. I just got a Wii and I have dial up internet. THIS IS A HUGE PROBLEM.
I want to use the internet with my Wii do download, get new channels, ect.

Does anybody have any idea how I can get the Wii to go online with dial up. It ruins ALL of the fun out of my Wii that I can't go online.
Oh yeah, my sucky dial up computer is in my bedroom which has my three game system "children."

Thank you so much. Geez, I've been asking people on gamespot.com which is a HUGE gaming website, which I'm quite popular lol, and they keep on saying the only solution is to get broadband or DSL.

Also, I've thought of the idea of using my printer's USB cord and then I'd plug it into my Wii and put my internet on. We both basically have a close idea, but THANK YOU SO MUCH for more details and important info.
If I could give you $5 for the help, I would. lol.

... I dunno. I think a 56K connection would get refused, since they claim it requires broadband. Despite using a PC as a router (assuming windows manages to pick up the WII as a network device), the connection speed won't be up to par for their requirements.

I don't think the people at Gamespot are stupid, as you seem to be inferring. Good luck with the router idea anyway, though. If it works, come let us know.

Okay, I looked in the thread I made on Gamespot again, and I TOTALLY have a definate answer. There were a few people who told me that they have dial up and all you need is WiFi and it'll be fine, but there will be an obvious slowness to their internet. I just need to change what my connection is and get internet set up on my Wii.
Between both websites, tjp and GS, I really appreciate everybody's input. It really gives me a good output on my Wii and I thought I wouldn't have internet at one point.

Thank you so much. Geez, I've been asking people on gamespot.com which is a HUGE gaming website, which I'm quite popular lol, and they keep on saying the only solution is to get broadband or DSL.

While it might not be necessary to have at least DSL or faster I would still recommend you to get it. Otherwise you'll most likely be getting really bad latency and long loading times. Not to mention that downloading virtual console games will take very long time.

Not to mention that surfing the internet goes so much smoother on DSL than on a dial-up connection. And if you want to download things it's sort of a must.

I'm going a bit off-topic now. I'm sort of wondering why dial-up internet still is offered. It depends a bit on your location, but still DSL should be offered in most places today.

PsychoSP wrote:Can you really communicate directly from PC to Wii? It seems like you'd need a router for this setup.

In this case the PC would be acting as a router.

Am I like the only person who's ever rolled their own router/firewall out of an old 486? I thought there would be a lot more geeks around.

I was asleep

Windows makes sharing an internet connection easy. For my xbox I just bought a very cheap wireless network bridge instead of the $99 adapter sold by microsoft. A cheap router can be used as a bridge too.

agreed. broadband access in U.S. is impossible unless you live near major metropolitan area. the U.S. is huge, like Russia or Canada, but not as cold.... so there are more people spread out in the far from city places. DSL has a very limited range, you have to be relatively close to a telephone sub-station to get DSL, within city area, not that much of a problem, outside of city... big problem. same with cable. but for TV, satellite is good solution, lots of bandwith coming down from satellite, but for satellite internet, the upstream is telephone (modem).... so satellite internet is fast down, but exactly the same up as dial-up connection.

so, if you are far from a big city, with no cable (and cable internet), you can use satellite for TV (so cable company has no reason to service your area), but not for games and such that need to speedily send data.

we recently spent millions to connect some far away California Desert schools into the California network, http://www.cenic.org/PalmDesert/index.html. renting fiber, setting up long distance high speed wireless connections.. just to get high speed network to schools out in the middle of nowhere.... outside of schools, these people out in the middle of nowhere have no high speed internet....

anyways... U.S. actually *sucks* for broadband, but you could give all of Europe broadband easier than you could give even a handful of U.S. states broadband...

I'm going a bit off-topic now. I'm sort of wondering why dial-up internet still is offered. It depends a bit on your location, but still DSL should be offered in most places today.

In the States, there are still many areas that cannot get DSL or Cable. The only option other than dialup is satellite.

Plus the cost can be a $30-50 difference per month.

Wow, I had no idea really... Here in Sweden you can get ADSL up to as fast as 24/1 mbit/s pretty much anywhere in the country. And in most cities you can get fiber connections as fast as 100/100 mbit/s. But then again, Sweden is a small country in comparison to the US...